Video: Adding cover pages and blank pages

Word 2010 includes a gallery of Cover Pages with placeholders for document information, like the author name, or title, or document date. Cover pages are another type of Word 2010 building block. This document that we've been working with already includes a cover page. It's not bad, but there is nothing exciting about it either. Let's start by make all one line without a carriage return, and I'm going to Copy this information. And then I'm going to select and delete the text on the cover page.

In Word 2010 Essential Training, Gini Courter uses real-world examples to teach the core features and tools in Word 2010. The course starts off with an orientation of the Word 2010 interface, and then delves into the functionality at the heart of Word: creating, editing, and formatting documents. It also covers proofing documents, reviewing documents with others, sharing and securing documents, working with tables, and illustrating documents. Exercise files are included with the course.

Adding cover pages and blank pages

Word 2010 includes a gallery of Cover Pages with placeholders for documentinformation, like the author name, or title, or document date.Cover pages are another type of Word 2010 building block.This document that we've been working with already includes a cover page.It's not bad, but there is nothing exciting about it either.Let's start by make all one line without a carriage return, and I'm going toCopy this information.And then I'm going to select and delete the text on the cover page.

I want to make sure I don't get down into the document.So I am just going to select and delete the cover page text, making thistemporarily page 1, and notice that my headers and footers are working justfine, because the header that was on page 2 just went away because we have adifferent first page header. Everything works.Now let's insert a cover page.The corresponding cover page for this family of headers and footers, which iscalled Motion, is right here.And I'm going to select it.I don't need to tell Microsoft Word to put it at the start of the document.

It knows where cover pages go.The date that it picked up here, it actually picked up from my choice of July 1 for the footers.Let's see if there's any other information it would like me to provide.Here is some information about the Author of this document, and I can edit, orprovide some slightly different information here.We are going to change this.And this document is being released on July 1, again, a date I chose elsewhere in this document.So here's a really striking-looking cover page.

We will just going to zoom out a bit to see how that looks and leads into our document.However, we don't need a picture of a train on our cover page.So let's right-click, and choose Change Picture.And let's actually select a picture that will work for us,a picture of olives.Notice that the image gets inserted in the same place the prior image was.Everything else works.Now that we've customized this cover, we might want to reuse it in otherdocuments with our images here.

We can easily save this cover, just like we would save any building block, whichis in the gallery where we chose this building block.First, I am going to select all the information on this cover page, and I wantto make sure that I get it all and nothing else.Notice I have all of these elements selected, including the two trees and thedate and everything.And now I can choose Cover Page > Save Selection to Cover Page Gallery.So I'll click, and it would like me to give this a name, and I can say that thisis the Two Trees Cover Page.

It asks me what Gallery I want to place it in.Well, it's a cover page. And what Category?There really are two categories, and you can create your own.So you could create a category called Two Trees, and then you could simply callthis Cover Page, or you can save it with the General Building Blocks.And because it's a cover page, it will be inserted in its own page.A few steps we needed to go through to save this,but it's the same whenever we save a building block.Select what you want to save, and then open the gallery that you chose thebuilding block from, and say you want to Save Selection.

And lets just see how that would work if we have a new document, or a document wehave been working on for a while.We can insert a cover page and below all the built-in cover pages, you willfind the General cover pages, and there is the cover page that we just created,again, available for us to use, in any document we wish. We can then enter our text and so on.With Word 2010's Building Blocks, it's just wicked easy to create a cover pagethat coordinates with headers and footers and all of the other design elementsin your document, so your documents have a crisp and professional look.

Q: The Panning Hand feature for scrolling through documents shown in the movie "Using the Word interface" does not appear in my version of Word.

A: This appears to be an issue with Word, in that the Panning Hand icon does not appear in every installation of Word. The Panning Hand feature was originally designed for a tablet PC and it will always appear on a tablet. However, onother laptops and desktops, the Panning Hand icon's appearance is dependent on the version of Windows and how much tablet PC functionality is built into that version.

Q: Why am I seeing the following error message when trying to open the exercise files in Word 2010?
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A: This is a permissions/trust issue specific to your install of Microsoft Office. Contact your IT department make sure documents downloaded from email and the web are not blocked. A workaround solution is to try opening the files in an older version of Word or try to edit your Trust Center settings.

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